![]() ![]() Anthony, was so inspired by the growing cycling craze there that she was moved to state that the bicycle had ‘done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. The year after Sophia purchased her Columbia bicycle, in America the suffragette, Susan B. From the moment she took ownership of her shiny new ‘Columbia Model 41 Ladies Safety Bicycle’ from the American Columbia bi - cycle shop in London’s Baker Street, Sophia was hooked and without knowing it, she was throwing in her lot with the burgeoning women’s suffrage movement. The Maharanee Duleep Singh has just been completing a series of lessons in Battersea Park.’ The newspaper may have incorrectly promoted Sophia to the title of Maharani, but they were right about one of her growing obsessions. It is patronised by Czar and Kaiser, the King of Greece and the King of Portugal, the King of the Belgians and the Grand Duke Cyril the Crown Prince of Sweden. A prominent article in the Hackney Express and Shoreditch Observer noted in October 1895: ‘Cycling is certainly the fashion of the hour and it is generally annexing the royalty and nobility of Europe. ![]()
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